WordWolf

"Sitting with the thinker Trying to work it out. It's a traffic jam of the brain Makes you want to scream and shout. Presidential party. No one wants to dance. Looking for a new star To put you in a trance." "Workin' in a factory Eight days a week. Try to make dollar D*, what a beat. Cartoon capers Happen in reality. Rich man, poor man Livin' in fantasy." "Livin' in New York, It looks like an apple core (apple core). Asphalt jungle Got to be a man of war (man of war). California dreamers Sinkin' in the sand (The sand, the sand) The Hollywood Squares are Living in Disney Land."

"Livin' in New York, It looks like an apple core (apple core). Asphalt jungle Got to be a man of war (man of war). California dreamers Sinkin' in the sand (The sand, the sand) The Hollywood Squares are Living in Disney Land."

I've neither seen this line in any movie, nor does it remind me of any movie I have not seen. (Like the rant from "Network.")

*blinks* Was this Daddy Dewdrop's "Chick-A-Boom"? And don't you just love it?

Dr Clove said he could go that evening to try to detect a spirit-and if one was present- to perform an exorcism. So, he said he would arrive at midnight, and to have prepared for him "Bay Leaves, cloves of garlic, incense, and half a chicken." "Half a chicken?" "Sometimes, around midnight, I get a little hungry..." When midnight arrived, Oscar arrived just ahead of Dr Clove, but Felix had been reading up and preparing. He wore a black robe, with a necklace of garlic. He had a bowl of flower petals or something. He wandered around, and portentiously flung petals around intending to produce some result, along with a "Ha!" as he did so. When the doorbell rang, Oscar shuffled over like Igor to answer it. Clove mumbled "Good evening-where is the chicken?" and then busted out laughing when he saw Felix. "Pardon me, Mister Unger. How a man dresses in the privacy of his home is his own business. I am merely laughing because you look funny." "This is for the exorcism!" "Mister Unger, that costume is used only for cases of Demonic Possession, and sometimes for Trick-or-Treat, but it doesn't work here." It was SO one of of my favorite moments of the series. ================================= Were you thinking of ANDY KAUFMAN here?

Good reminder. As vpw saw it, the Presidency of twi was PROPERLY the BIRTHRIGHT of his bloodline, no matter how distant. So, if it wasn't any of his sons (apparently, JP stayed clear of all this nonsense, so that's just Donnie) then he needed a PLACEHOLDER PRESIDENT until one of his grandsons (never a granddaughter, always a male, of course) was old enough to be crowned king of the castle. I imagine that his view as EXPENDABLE of ALL of the inner cadre was more than a mild insult to them all. Of course, in hindsight, I'm sure at least SOME are thankful that was so. (DWBH if nobody else.)

If that's not "SCENT OF A WOMAN," let's see.... I don't know, "SCARFACE"?

That's him. He had a number of roles in both movies and television. I remember him for 2 roles on "the Odd Couple" more than for "Batman." He played Dr Clove, the exorcist, and the manager for the landlord, Mr Lovelace.

*checks* It was definitely "DONNIE BRASCO." He answered it.

Edwin Flagg William Howard Taft Big Sam Hollis Deputy Alvin Potts High Priest Sorak 'Diamond' Jim Adiposo Professor William McElroy/King Tut Sir Cecil Seabrook Count Mario Vincenzo Robespierre Manzeppi Dr Clove Hugo Lovelace

I can picture Pacino saying that, so I'll try "SCENT OF A WOMAN."

It is not that actor-who did die in 1977. No idea who "Lodge" is, since Sebastian Cabot was "Charles Sebastian Thomas Cabot", with no "Lodge" in his name. BTW, the next name will be the giveaway. Me, I could have gotten it from the last 2 names I posted, but only if they were together. (This is not a list with any names added...) Edwin Flagg William Howard Taft Big Sam Hollis Deputy Alvin Potts High Priest Sorak 'Diamond' Jim Adiposo Professor William McElroy Sir Cecil Seabrook Count Mario Vincenzo Robespierre Manzeppi Dr Clove Hugo Lovelace

AFAIK, AA is anonymous, thus the name "Alcoholics Anonymous." However, we have the example of a chronic alcoholic who died of cancer to the eye AND LIVER. (Between the alcohol and chronic tobacco abuse, we have exposure of the liver to something known to damage it, and something known to cause cancer.) We have the example of someone who plagiarized everything he came across- who seems to have plagiarized AA. That's not an eyewitness account, but the circumstantial evidence is sufficient for most people to connect the dots there- except for the usual "wierwille was a giant among men and you all suck for pointing out all his issues" crowd.

No. And for a moment, I was scared you got it by remembering who William McElroy was. BTW, this actor passed away in 1982.

Edwin Flagg William Howard Taft Big Sam Hollis Deputy Alvin Potts High Priest Sorak 'Diamond' Jim Adiposo William McElroy Sir Cecil Seabrook Count Mario Vincenzo Robespierre Manzeppi Dr Clove Hugo Lovelace

He might be described as "big-boned..." It does indeed SOUND Vulcan, but is definitely NOT.

Here's the next one. ===================== Edwin Flagg William Howard Taft Big Sam Hollis Deputy Alvin Potts Sorak 'Diamond' Jim

Lauren Bacall can get her own ham sandwich. This was "HUMPHREY BOGART."

Avengers 2-Age of Ultron (the Vision/JARVIS) Don Cheadle Oceans 11

A separate issue was vpw's heavy drinking. vpw drank. A LOT. ALL THE TIME. When he visited places FOR THE WEEKEND, a local or localS were tasked to supply his favorite booze. As in "He can't go for a weekend without a drink, and he's not paying for his own, so you supply it out-of-pocket." That's why we all know what he drank (and smoked, since he was a chronic smoker, also.) Why does this matter for this thread? It's known that some people with a psychological problem or a psychiatric problem will "self-medicate" with alcohol to "drown their sorrows." So, did vpw have some problem he drank to alleviate? I think it was the other possibility. vpw seemed a nice guy when he was drunk, but could be mean, especially when he was short on alcohol. I think the drinking wasn't to alleviate an overt problem. Rather, I think the drinking WAS the overt problem, and if he didn't give himself alcoholism, and wasn't sloshed a lot of the time, the mood-swings would have been a LOT less dramatic. I think he still was a sociopath and would have yelled in between chats and thought nothing of it, but I think the actual mood-swings would have been a lot less common. Yes, I think he was a stew of a FEW different problems, but they aren't so many they can't be understood.

Was this "Goodfellas"?